"English-speaking world before J. M. Barrie's work and its subsequent popularity has led some to credit him with ""inventing"" it. Although the name ""Wendy"" was used to a limited extent as the familiar-form of the Welsh name Gwendolyn, it is thought that Barrie took the name from a phrase used by Margaret Henley, a five-year-old girl whom Barrie befriended in the 1890s, daughter of his friend William Henley. She called Barrie her ""friendy-wendy"", which she pronounced as ""fwendy-wendy"". She died at the age of five and was buried, along with her family, in Cockayne Hatley. In Great Britain, South Africa,"
"Wendy Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a name for both women and men in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a diminutive for the Welsh ""Gwendolyn"". It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century. However, its existence in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the"
"Wendy Meddour Wendy Meddour is a writer, illustrator and academic. Her debut children's novel ""A Hen in the Wardrobe"" was published by Frances Lincoln Publishers in 2012. The book was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award (for Outstanding First Novel) and was named one of the 'Best 50 Culturally Diverse Books since the 1950s' by ""The Guardian"". Meddour then published the bestselling ""Wendy Quill"" series with Oxford University Press, which has since been licensed in over ten countries. The series is based on her own childhood and was illustrated by her then twelve-year-old daughter, Mina May, making her one of"
"Wendy Isdell Wendy Diane Isdell (born March 30, 1975) is an American author and artist. She is best known for her young adult works, which incorporate science and math into fiction. Her most popular novel, ""A Gebra Named Al,"" was first published in 1993. Isdell dedicated much of her early life to writing. Her first notable publishing credit came at age nine, through articles in the Haydon Elementary School newsletter (the first ever by a student). Seven years later, she signed a contract for her first novel, ""A Gebra Named Al,"" with Free Spirit Publishing in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The sequel"
"She went on to obtain a Doctorate of Divinity and Ph.D. in Religion. Isdell currently lives in Virginia, and is openly gay. For health reasons, she rarely ventures out. Wendy Isdell Wendy Diane Isdell (born March 30, 1975) is an American author and artist. She is best known for her young adult works, which incorporate science and math into fiction. Her most popular novel, ""A Gebra Named Al,"" was first published in 1993. Isdell dedicated much of her early life to writing. Her first notable publishing credit came at age nine, through articles in the Haydon Elementary School newsletter (the"
"Margaret Henley Margaret Emma Henley (4 September 1888 – 11 February 1894) was the daughter of William Ernest Henley and his wife Anna Henley (née Boyle). Margaret's friendship with J. M. Barrie, whom she called ""fwendy"" (i.e., ""friendy""), was the inspiration for the character Wendy Darling in Barrie's play ""Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" (1904) and its novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911). She may also have served as the inspiration for Margaret Dearth, the protagonist's ""dream-child"" in Barrie's 1917 play ""Dear Brutus"", and for Margaret, Wendy Darling's granddaughter, in ""Peter Pan"". Margaret died at the age"
"Me In"" published by Random House in 2000. Wendy McCarthy Wendy Elizabeth McCarthy, , (born 22 July 1941 in , New South Wales) is an experienced businesswomen, manager and executive. Wendy began her professional life as a secondary school teacher and since then she has remained committed to shifting the concept and reality of being female in Australia, and globally. For five decades Wendy has worked for reform across the public, private and community sectors, in education, family planning, human rights, public health, and overseas aid and development, as well as in conservation, heritage, and media. Her first experience as"
"of five of cerebral meningitis. She was buried at the country estate of her father's friend, Henry Cust, in Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire. She was an only child. Margaret Henley Margaret Emma Henley (4 September 1888 – 11 February 1894) was the daughter of William Ernest Henley and his wife Anna Henley (née Boyle). Margaret's friendship with J. M. Barrie, whom she called ""fwendy"" (i.e., ""friendy""), was the inspiration for the character Wendy Darling in Barrie's play ""Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" (1904) and its novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"" (1911). She may also have served as the"
"Sidney for a pivotal character in his epic prose work, ""The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia""; Jessica, created by William Shakespeare in his play ""The Merchant of Venice""; Vanessa, created by Jonathan Swift; Fiona, a character from James Macpherson's spurious cycle of Ossian poems; Wendy, an obscure name popularised by J. M. Barrie in his play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up""; and Madison, a character from the movie ""Splash"". Lara and Larissa were rare in America before the appearance of ""Doctor Zhivago,"" and have become fairly common since. Songs can influence the naming of children. Jude jumped"
"title, ""Wendy the Good Little Witch"", in 1960. Other ancillary titles featuring the pleasant young witch include ""Wendy Witch World"" (October 1961 to September 1974), and ""Casper and Wendy"" (September 1972 to November 1973). Another ""Wendy the Good Little Witch"" comic ran from April 1991 to August 1994, and a three-issue ""Wendy the Good Little Witch and New Kids on the Block"" saw print in 1991. In addition to Casper, the Wendy comics frequently feature Wendy's ""aunties"", Thelma, Velma and Zelma, with whom she shares a cottage in a haunted forest. The story ""Remember When"" recounts how Wendy was abandoned"
"of origin applies if it is shorter than their local term.) Peter and Wendy Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two brothers, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the"
"boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, ""Peter Pan"" overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from"
"Wendy the Good Little Witch Wendy the Good Little Witch is a fictional comic book character from Harvey Comics. Like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Wendy is an opposite-type character, a girl witch who does good deeds. Wendy was introduced as a back-up feature as well as a companion for Casper in ""Casper the Friendly Ghost"" #20, May 1954. Casper met and befriended her after stopping a major battle between the witches & the ghosts. Soon, she was trialed in Harvey Hits, starting with #7. After a total of six appearances, she received her own"
"Hilda Trevelyan Hilda Trevelyan (4 February 1880 – 10 November 1959) was an English actress. Early in her career she became known for her performance in plays by J. M. Barrie, and is probably best remembered for creating the role of Wendy in ""Peter Pan"". Another early success was as Oliver Twist in a dramatisation of Charles Dickens's novel staged by Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Later in her career she performed in plays by Arnold Bennett, Ian Hay and others, in London and on tour. She retired after her last London play in 1939. Trevelyan was born Hilda Marie Antoinette Anna"
"South- Reference Wendy Richardson Wendy Richardson, OAM (born 1933) is one of Australia's most popular playwrights, best known as the author of ""Windy Gully"". Richardson lives in Mount Kembla near Wollongong, New South Wales. She is very active in the local community, working with disabled and disadvantaged youth, assisting those in need, teaching Sunday School and participating in historical and literary events. Richardson describes herself: Richardson was born in Singleton in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, on 21 December 1933. In 1967 she moved to the small mining village of Mount Kembla in the Illawarra District, where she raised"
"Henley, who had a wooden leg, was Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver. Henley was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, the author of ""Peter Pan"". Henley used to address Barrie as ""friend"", which Henley's only daughter, Margaret (1888–1894), who is also buried there along with her parents, mispronounced as ""fwend"" and changed in a childish way to ""fwendy-wendy"". The latter part of this familiar name gave the name of ""Wendy Darling"" which later became the Wendy of ""Peter Pan"". Henley is now chiefly remembered as the author of the poem ""Invictus"". Cockayne Hatley Cockayne Hatley is"
"Wendy Richardson Wendy Richardson, OAM (born 1933) is one of Australia's most popular playwrights, best known as the author of ""Windy Gully"". Richardson lives in Mount Kembla near Wollongong, New South Wales. She is very active in the local community, working with disabled and disadvantaged youth, assisting those in need, teaching Sunday School and participating in historical and literary events. Richardson describes herself: Richardson was born in Singleton in the Hunter Region, New South Wales, on 21 December 1933. In 1967 she moved to the small mining village of Mount Kembla in the Illawarra District, where she raised her children,"
"Wendy Holden (author, born 1965) Wendy Holden (born 12 June 1965) is a best-selling British novelist. Holden was born and raised in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire. She read English at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University in the mid-1980s, and then moved to London where she found work in the magazine business, eventually working for ""The Diplomat"" monthly, where she became an editor, and from there, she moved on to ""The Sunday Times"". One of her responsibilities at the title was ghostwriting a column on behalf of socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, an experience which Holden says influenced her first novel, ""Simply"
"Peter and Wendy Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. The Peter Pan stories also involve the characters Wendy Darling and her two brothers, Peter's fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel"
"the pseudonym Emma Darcy. Widowed, Wendy now lives in New South Wales, Australia with 5 grandchildren and 3 adult sons. As Emma Darcy, they sold her first novels in 1983. Darcy sold 60 million books from 1983 to 2001, and averaged six new books per year. In 2002, Darcy's first crime novel ""Who Killed Angelique?"" won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, ""Who Killed Bianca"", was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. In 1993 Frank and Wendy Brennan created the ""Emma Darcy Award Contest"" to encourage authors to finish"
"instance, ""Viz"" comic ran a parody strip called Wanker Watson. There is also a British racehorse called Winker Watson after the character. Winker Watson Winker Watson is a British comic strip, created by Eric Roberts, which ran in the British comic book magazine ""The Dandy"" for almost half a century. It debuted in 1961 and only terminated its run in 2007. It was revived in 2012. Winker first appeared in the 1961 Dandy Book (published September 1960), and then appeared in the weekly Dandy on 1 April 1961 in issue Number 1010, and was quickly established as a character of"
"novel ""Who Killed Angelique?"" won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, ""Who Killed Bianca"", was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Wendy (born 28 November 1940) has an Honours degree in Latin and worked as a high school English teacher. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere. Frank Brennan was a businessman. He died in 1995. Frank Brennan and Wendy married, and she left her job. The marriage had three sons. They are voracious readers, and they decided to write their own novels under"
"survived by his wife, Gwen (née Empsall) his mother Jane and two sisters, Ellen and Sarah. Ellen worked for Florence Nightingale between 1885 and 1892 as cook and housekeeper. William David Owen William David Owen (1874–1925), born William Owen was a Welsh author best known for his novel ""Madam Wen"" (White Lady). ""Madam Wen"" which was published in book form in 1925, although it had first appeared as a serial in the Welsh-language newspaper ""y Genedl Gymraeg"" (The Welsh Nation) in 1914. The first English edition of the story was published in an abridged form in October 2009, in a"
"Barrie had written later and titled ""An Afterthought"" (later included by Barrie in his 1911 novelization ""Peter and Wendy""). In this ending, Peter returns after many years to take Wendy back to Never Never Land for spring cleaning. He finds that he has been away so long that Wendy is now an adult, married woman with a daughter. Despondent at first, he is delighted when Wendy's daughter Jane offers to be his new mother, and instead takes her with him. The musical premiered at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco on July 19, 1954. The initial four-week run was followed"
"and long estranged. By the time of Kathy's death, she had requested that her friends not contact Wendy, as some had suggested. Acker was raised in her mother and stepfather's home on New York's prosperous Upper East Side. In 1978, Claire Alexander, Karen's mother, committed suicide. In 1966, she married Robert Acker, and changed her last name from Alexander to Acker. Although her birth name was Karen, she was known as Kathy by her friends and family. Her first work appeared in print as part of the burgeoning New York City literary underground of the mid-1970s. Like other young women"
"Melendy Quartet, a series of four children's novels published between 1941 and 1951: ""The Saturdays"", ""The Four-Story Mistake"", ""Then There Were Five"", and ""Spiderweb for Two."" This series tells the adventures of four siblings who live in New York City and later in upstate New York with their father, a writer, and a housekeeper named Cuffy. ""Tatsinda"", a traditional fairy tale, was named an Honor Book at the 1963 ""New York Herald Tribune""'s Children's Spring Book Festival. Enright's final children's book, ""Zee"", the story of a naughty fairy, appeared in 1966. Enright's short stories for adult readers were published in"
"in a revival of Michael Barringer's comedy-thriller ""Inquest"" in 1939 Trevelyan retired. She and her husband, who outlived her, enjoyed twenty years of retirement at their country house near Henley-on-Thames. There were no children of the marriage. She died at Henley-on-Thames, at the age of 82. Hilda Trevelyan Hilda Trevelyan (4 February 1880 – 10 November 1959) was an English actress. Early in her career she became known for her performance in plays by J. M. Barrie, and is probably best remembered for creating the role of Wendy in ""Peter Pan"". Another early success was as Oliver Twist in a"
"Winker Watson Winker Watson is a British comic strip, created by Eric Roberts, which ran in the British comic book magazine ""The Dandy"" for almost half a century. It debuted in 1961 and only terminated its run in 2007. It was revived in 2012. Winker first appeared in the 1961 Dandy Book (published September 1960), and then appeared in the weekly Dandy on 1 April 1961 in issue Number 1010, and was quickly established as a character of great wit and appeal. Probably modeled on the Greyfriars stories and on Harry Wharton, Winker is a pupil of the Third Form"
"top 100 most commonly used names for baby girls in England and Wales in 1934. The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play ""The Merchant of Venice"", where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. Jessica is the seventh most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2015. First appearing in 13th century England, Olivia was popularised by Shakespeare's character in the ""Twelfth Night"" (1602). Vanessa was created by Jonathan Swift in his poem ""Cadenus and Vanessa"" (1713). While it first appeared in late 16th century England, Pamela was popularised after Samuel Richardson"
"process took about a month."" Gwendy's Button Box Gwendy's Button Box is a novella written by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. It was announced by ""Entertainment Weekly"" on February 28, 2017.. The American edition published by Cemetery Dance included illustrations by Keith Minnion. The French edition released by Le Livre de Poche in september 2018, reproduced those illustrations with brand new ones by the same artist. The story takes place in King's fictional town of Castle Rock in 1974. Twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson encounters a stranger in dark clothes and a black hat who invites her to ""palaver"". ""I had a"
"Vanessa (name) Vanessa is a feminine given name, especially popular in the United States, Germany and Brazil. It was invented by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, whom Swift had met in 1708 and whom he tutored. The name was created by taking ""Van"" from Vanhomrigh's last name and adding ""Essa"", a pet form of Esther. In 1726 the name Vanessa appeared in print for the first time in ""Cadenus and Vanessa"", an autobiographical poem about Swift's relationship with Vanhomrigh. Swift had written the poem in 1713, but it was not published until three years after Vanhomrigh died."
"names as ""Wendi"" or ""Wendy"" (e.g. Wendi Deng, Wendy Kweh). In Germany, after 1986, the name Wendy became popular because it is the name of a (targeted specifically at young girls) about horses and horse riding. Wendy Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a name for both women and men in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a diminutive for"
"their manuscripts. It had a prize of $2,000 and a guarantee that the manuscript would be seen by an acquiring editor. Winners: Emma Darcy Emma Darcy is the pseudonym used by the Australian husband–wife writing team of Wendy Brennan (b. 28 November 1940) and Frank Brennan (1936-95), they wrote in collaboration over 45 romance novels. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the ""Emma Darcy Award Contest"" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy now writes the books on her own. Wendy lives in New South Wales,"